Kapitel 2: Set up, It Was All A Set Up!
Redakteur: EndlessFantasy Translation
In the following period, Xu Mang gained a general understanding of how the System worked. Unlocking a skill required a certain specific location and occasion, using his salted fish method to acquire it. To increase the skill points, he needed to lie down somehow. The only thing was that he didn't know how to make use of the skill points.
The Upgrade Cards were used to upgrade the five attributes—virtue, intelligence, physical, aesthetics, and labor. At the moment, he only understood the meanings for three of them, which was, intelligence, physical, and beauty. What the h*ll was virtue and labor?
Virtue—Be righteous towards others!
Labor—Practice makes perfect!
The hints were not really helpful, and he couldn't make sense of it at all.
To increase his attributes level, for 'Virtue' to increase from level 1 to 2, he required 25 Upgrade Cards. The following levels would be cumulative multiples of that amount to increase, until the maximum level of level 5. These shocking numbers made it hard for Xu Mang to accept.
Although he didn't know how to obtain these Upgrade Cards, if he wanted to raise an attribute to the maximum level, he needed 775 Upgrade Cards in total, what a joke...775, this number was already mind-boggling.
Of course, as a normal person, you had to have some daydreams. Xu Mang imagined that if the day came when he held 775 Upgrade Cards, he would most likely choose to max out the 'Beauty' attribute because, as the saying goes, beauty is the road to success.
Xu Mang thought that he was quite handsome, but being good-looking was a path that was never-ending. After all, who didn't want to be a little more handsome? Even if he was a salted fish, he could still be a handsome salted fish.
Taking out his phone, he switched it to selfie mode as he studied his own face. After a long while, he released a sigh.
"Forget it…"
"It's not like I could possibly get any more handsome than this…"
"If I became any more handsome than I am now, my life might be in danger."
But come to think of it, was that the only way to increase his skill points?
Xu Mang had a big question mark in his heart. He didn't believe that there was only one way to increase his skill points in this System, otherwise, this System would be considered lazy as well, right?
Finally, after English period, the next two periods would be History class. Xu Mang didn't even bother to take out his history textbook. However, it was the English teacher who walked in with a stack of test papers, and the first sentence spoken out to the classroom almost made Xu Mang want to collapse.
"Your History teacher has diarrhea, so this period has changed to English."
"Keep away your things!"
"A quiz!"
Without much complaints or grumbling, the students packed up their things and readied themselves for the upcoming quiz. To them, the moment they entered into their third year, they had been prepared for exams at any time.
However, Xu Mang was different.
He was suffering.
History teacher...what happened to you? Were you kidnapped by the English teacher? If that was the case, you could have sent a message via telepathy so that the students could come and rescue you immediately!
The only subject Xu Mang could bring out was language, but let's not even talk about the results. At least he could understand the contents for language tests and could still fill in the answers for the questions. If he was lucky enough, he could even get an acceptable score for his essays.
English was already bad enough for him, Xu Mang still hadn't figured out why an all-out Chinese speaker would need to speak English. What age was it already!? Aircrafts had been launched into the skies, submarines had gone deep into the waters, humans had walked on the moon...it was time to let the whole world speak Chinese!
After receiving the test paper, Xu Mang wrote out his own name and class. He then entered a meditative state of deep thoughts, forming various bold ideas about the future. When his thoughts returned to reality, Xu Mang took out his pencil, eraser, and scrap paper, and began to breathe life into it.
Halfway through his creation, Xu Mang was almost frightened to death when a window popped up in his mind.
[New Quest: The path to lying down and winning]
[Description: Even a salted fish has dreams, please use the System to complete the questions and experience the thrill of getting the answers right while lying down!]
[Reward: Upgrade Card*1]
[Accept or Deny?]
Use the System to complete one question?
How did that work?
'System, my friend...can you tell me the right answer?' Xu Mang tried to ask in his heart.
[System has detected, the correct answer will require: 10 points (English Skill)]
[Do you agree to the exchange?]
10 points?
Oh!
That was it!
Xu Mang checked his status.
English Skills = 107
Yes!
Take it!
Xu Mang then knew that the correct answer was C.
[The path to lying down and winning—Complete]
[Obtained: Upgrade Card*1]
Complete!
Even though he had only finished one question, this was Xu Mang's first step on the path in English. Let's not talk about how many marks you could get for completing one multiple-choice question, it was still a boost and gave Xu Mang, as cancerous as he was, a brighter outlook on the future.
'System...to get full marks on this English quiz, how many points would it take from the English Skill?' Xu Mang asked.
[System has detected, full marks on the quiz will require: 200 points (English Skill)]
"..."
Xu Mang began to doubt this whole world. One multiple choice question required 10 points whereas an entire quiz required 200 points. What had happened in the middle?
After a minute of pondering, Xu Mang more or less knew the reason. He recalled the long-abandoned broken Cayenne at home which they had brought to the
Using the terms of exchange for such accessories, the Cayenne at home was more or less at a final valuation of over 3 million.
That was extremely unexpected!
Even in such an upright System, it had also started to set you up!
As the exam ended, Xu Mang had only completed one multiple choice question. As the person sitting at the end of the row, Xu Mang was also responsible for collecting the papers. Obviously, he didn't forget to place his paper at the very bottom, he had no desire to die on the spot.
There were still 5 minutes remaining for the afternoon class, and apart from going to the restroom, the students were happily discussing the answers to the quiz. Naturally, in the process of comparing their answers, it was inevitable to categorize the students.
"Geez, that question was actually quite difficult. I don't have the confidence on whether I got it right or not." Those who said these kinds of words were usually the students who were among the top in class—They clearly had the correct answer, but they still told others that they were not sure or not confident, trying to confuse the people listening.
"This question, I really don't know... didn't understand it." These kind of students were the average ones, they didn't have any outstanding knowledge and were practical and realistic.
"I'm dead for sure, there were too many wrong things." Those who said this belonged to the below-average category and had accepted reality.
"What!? There were still more questions on the other side!?" These were the students at the bottom of the class, nothing could cure them.
And finally, there was one more type of special existence…
"Holy sh*t! I overslept and forgot to submit my paper…" This kind of student was called Xu Mang.
Following the ringing of the bell that signaled the next period, the entire school rumbled with deafening sounds. The masses going for lunch had started the stampede, and Xu Mang was naturally not going to join their lines, instead, slowly walking alone toward the cafeteria.
It was probably too late to buy anything but luckily, the school provided free soup. If he didn't remember wrongly, today would be pork ribs with winter melon soup.
Holding a bowl that was several times larger than everyone else's, let's call it...a basin, Xu Mang started his performance in front of the winter melon soup, the perfect separation of winter melons and pork ribs. Every time the soup ladle danced, it meant that there was one less piece of ribs in the pot.
Under the complaints and anger of everyone else, Xu Mang successfully packed all the pork ribs into his own 'bowl'. Hehe, he would eat all the ribs, the others could have the winter melons!
"Ha…"
"Was I too much?" Xu Mang had just put down the ladle, but he couldn't help but let out a yawn. Could he be the reincarnation of sloth?
[New skill detected, Soup Skill has been unlocked]
-- Geschenk
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